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Debian Eterm Buffer Overflow Alert DSA 309-1 Critical Privilege Escalation

"bazarr" discovered that eterm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow ofthe ETERMPATH environment variable. This bug can be exploited to gainthe privileges of the group "utmp" on a system where eterm isinstalled.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 309-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman June 6th, 2003 Debian -- Debian security FAQ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : eterm Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local Bugtraq ID : 7708 "bazarr" discovered that eterm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow of the ETERMPATH environment variable. This bug can be exploited to gain the privileges of the group "utmp" on a system where eterm is installed. For the stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1. The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this bug. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your eterm package. Upgrade Instructions -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 580 93e4f7a311340b12531333ab0606ef86 Size/MD5 checksum: 669179 c749cbc4b08e75892d2f1c7184c91845 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 389906 382018a77b71a278eaef04472caf604d ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 374132 731d78fcaef37260c19a892a09aec8dd Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 332332 62c775be2dc796a881667cac80bf69a8 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 450196 7ec5a565f8939f8a4f6ad87b83e895cf HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 390204 6f29ccd6ad78296fc1646df68ecbd803 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 336852 95830a081e2c990d2ec6a67a27d5b7f6 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 335768 7fc79db933e042e409c96298b326c0b1 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 335020 a93317df7718a0d4825a3625cd3caa45 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 365208 5f2735b435d7a63a46787033340d8e35 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 356098 118b70aa96874ec4215949a48776b2e3 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 368856 bc4c4ebf144a4e9f2ae7001f0726aaff These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. . A critical alert has been issued for Debian users about a buffer overflow in eterm, threatening system stability. Immediate updates are strongly recommended. Debian Security,Eterm Exploit,Privilege Escalation,Security Advisory. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jun 06, 2003 •Critical Debian